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Research Interests and Supervision

Research Interests

1. Elections and electoral systems design and performance
2. Comparative ethnic and national conflicts
3. Coalition politics, executives and Assemblies
4. Party and electoral competition in divided societies, especially Northern Ireland.
5. Parties and elections in the Republic of Ireland.
6. Most areas of political parties and party competition, especially but not exclusively in Western Europe

Supervision

I now primarily supervise (or co-supervise) PhD students on LSE's 'taught PhD' programme - the MRes/PhD in Political Science which I currently jointly convene with Simon Hix.

Recent PhD's Supervised (or co-supervised)

Koichi Kato, (PhD awarded 2008') 'Compulsory Voting for Industrial Democracies: the Case of Australia'. Co-supervised with Ian McAllister. Examiners: David Farrell and Helen Margetts.

Keiichi Kubo, 'Toward Dynamic Models of Ethnic Rebellion:
Grievances, Resources and the State Responses in the ex-Yugoslav Region and the World'. Examiners: Sarah Birch and Florian Bieber.

Indraneel Sircar. (PhD awarded 2006).  'Transnational Consociation in Northern Ireland and in Bosni-Hercegovina: The Role of Reference States in Post-Settlement Power Sharing'.  Examiners: Brendan O'Leary and Stefan Wolff.

Shelley Deane (PhD awarded 2004).  'Negotiating Peace Agreements: Elite Bargaining and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in Northern Ireland and Israel-Palestine'.  Examiners: Adrian Guelke and Brendan O'Duffy.

Ongoing PhD's

Farimah Daftary:  Regional Autonomy Movements.

Markus Wagner: Party Systems

Ulrike Theuerkauf: Ethnic conflict and institutions.

 

Recent PhD Theses Examined

Brighid Brookes Kelly (Trinity College Dublin), 'An Exploration of the Relationship between Consociationalsim and Stability in Plural Societies throughout the World'. Examined with Robert Thomson (TCD), October 2006

Daniel Rubenson (LSE), 'Community Effects on Political Participation: The Role of Social Capital, Heterogeneity and Government Competencies'.  Examined with Anthony Heath (University of Oxford), January 2006.

Ben Seyd (UCL), 'Democracy and Constitutional Change in Britain'. Examined with David Sanders (University of Essex), October 2005.

Hendrik Krazschmar (LSE), 'The Impact of the 1990 Electoral Reform on Patterns of Party Development in Mubarak’s Egypt.'  Examined with Maye Kassem (American University Cairo), May 2005.

Carlo Gallo (LSE), 'Russian Duma Elections in the Territorial Districts: Explaining Patterns of Proliferation of Independent Candidates, 1993-1999'. Examined with Petra Schleiter (University of Oxford), December 2004.

Velis  Vourtoukiotis (LSE), 'Democracy and Human Development: A Critical Empirical Investigation using data from 123 countries, 1970-1990'. Examined with Adrian Leftwich (University of York), July 2002.